Dallas Cowboys nose tackle Josh Brent was indicted Dec. 26 on an intoxication manslaughter charge in the Dec. 8 death of teammate and freind Jerry Brown. Brent is accused of driving drunk when he crashed his car in Irving, killing Brown.

A grand jury on Wednesday indicted Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Josh Brent on a charge of intoxication manslaughter in the death of his teammate and best friend, Jerry Brown Jr., earlier this month.

The second-degree felony charge carries a maximum punishment of 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. No trial date has been set in the case, which is assigned to state District Judge Robert Burns.

Cowboys team officials declined to comment. Brent’s defense attorney, George Milner III, did not return a call seeking comment. The Dallas County district attorney’s office and Irving police also declined to discuss the case.

Brent remains free after posting $100,000 bail.

Newly obtained investigative documents shed more light on the case, including the fact that police found an unopened bottle of Pierre cognac in or near Brent’s white four-door Mercedes S600, which flipped and caught fire as he was headed west on the service road of State Highway 114 near Loop 12.

An accident report obtained Wednesday lists three contributing factors for the early-morning wreck Dec. 8: alcohol, speeding and failure to drive in a single lane. The 24-year-old’s blood alcohol level was found to be more than twice the legal limit after officers drew his blood on the morning of the wreck.

Brent refused a Breathalyzer test but because the single-car crash resulted in a death, authorities could draw his blood against his will. His blood alcohol level was 0.189, the report said. The legal limit in Texas is 0.08.

Irving police have said that the 321-pound Brent failed field sobriety tests immediately after the crash. No drugs were found in his system, the report said.

The report said Brent “was intoxicated, speeding over the limit, failed to drive in a single lane and struck the north (right) curb, causing the operator to lose control” of the car. The posted speed limit is 45 mph.

Brent “steered to the left, then back to the right overcorrecting causing [the car] to slide out of control into the north (right) curb, slide into the north (right) ditch, overturn, slid on the roof back onto the roadway and come to rest in the center lane on its roof.”

The Mercedes traveled more than 870 feet from the time it hit the curb to when it came to rest. Neither of the men was wearing a seat belt, according to the report.

The report also noted that Brent, who served 30 days in an Illinois jail for driving drunk in 2009, had an expired and suspended Illinois driver’s license, as was reported during a court appearance last week. For that reason, as a condition of his bond, Brent is barred from driving unless he gets a valid license.

He also is not allowed to drink any alcohol. He was ordered last week to wear a SCRAM — a Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor — on his ankle. It monitors alcohol intake by sampling sweat and transmitting the readings to a computer.

According to the report, police believe the wreck occurred about 2:19 a.m. They were notified at 2:21 a.m. and arrived three minutes later. The weather was clear and the road was dry, the report said.

Brown, a practice squad linebacker, was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly before 3 a.m. He died from blunt-force trauma to his head and neck, according to the Dallas County medical examiner.

In the days following the wreck, Irving police obtained at least three search warrants for Brent’s car and an iPad and cellphone found inside the car.

In addition to the cognac in the Mercedes, police seized an airbag control module, brake pedal, driver and front-passenger seat belts, multiple receipts and “miscellaneous papers,” including the car’s title.

In affidavits for search warrants for the iPad and cellphone, police wrote that the devices contain “information from the events prior to and during the crash that will aid in this investigation.”

Brent is on the team’s inactive/nonfootball illness list, effectively ending his season. The Cowboys banned him from the team’s sideline for the rest of the season following his controversial appearance during a home game Dec. 16.

Brent’s teammates have remained supportive. Veteran defensive end Marcus Spears was asked about the indictment on Wednesday.

“Josh is like family to us, and that’s all I’m going to say about that,” Spears said. “Anybody who has family members understands what’s after that.”

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